Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Jamie at Home 2: Butternut Squash Cupcakes

Just completed watching the new Jamie at Home season 2 on squashes and pumpkins. I've always wondered what to do with squashes and pumpkins. Here's a recipe that seems really easy, and I like it mostly because it's all done in a food processor. Here's literally my copying off the episode as Jamie does performs it on screen.

Ingredients (makes 24)
400g butternut squash, skin and all (yay! don't even had to remove it, which gave me a big headache last time!), smallish cubed
400g brown sugar
300g plain flour
4 eggs
pinch of salt
2 heaped tbsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
Handful of walnuts
175ml virgin olive oil or sunflower oil

Method
1) Chop up the squash into smallish cubes, the skin can be kept on. Put it into the processor and blitz it up as fine as possible.
2) Add the rest of the ingredients into the processsor and blitz up until everything is well combined.
3) Pour into cupcake paper lined muffin tins. Fill it 3/4 full.
4) Bake at180 deg C for 20 mins.

Get a knife, insert it in and if it comes out clean, it's ready.

I didn't bother with the 2nd part of this receipe which is frosted topping, which I've never been too keen on.

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